BFI Course: Women’s Film: Changing the Guard

This six-session evening course will investigate the changing culture around women’s filmmaking.

Every Tuesday from 6 February - 13 March
18:30 - 20:30 Studio

This six-session evening course will investigate the changing culture around women’s filmmaking. It’s inspired by our Girlfriends season, our regular Woman With a Movie Camera strand and recent data on women’s roles in the industry revealed by the BFI’s UK Filmography. The sessions will be led by BFI curators and programmers, who will discuss their research and programming practice in the context of recent critical debates around women’s filmmaking and film history.

Presented by Helen De Witt, film programmer and lecturer.

Course fee £72, concs £60.

6 Feb
Histories and struggles

13 Feb
The truth of the picture - the BFI filmography

20 Feb
In front and behind the camera: girlfriends and the female gaze

27 Feb
Festivals and flare-ups!

6 Mar
Non-fiction is kinder than fiction: Women working in british documentary and feature filmmaking